Wet sanding

If you rub a finger nail across the defect and can feel it catch it's too deep. Anything down to the primer is touch up job. If it's just through the clear and not the base coat you will need a paint thickness gauge to measure how much paint is there. It's real easy to sand through the paint.
If it's small damage just touch up, spot wet sand then buff out.
 
if its on clear coat so you can wet sand it but if its too deep wed sanding cant help
 
It's a 13 black accord. I've compounded. I went to a body shop few days ago. He said a couple of the scratches can be wet sanded. The tiny rock chips in the hood and some other scratches can be touched up just so you don't see white. When you see white. Is that the clear coat or the primer?
 
frankprozzoly said:
It's a 13 black accord. I've compounded. I went to a body shop few days ago.

He said a couple of the scratches can be wet sanded.
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Well he's right and he probably has some experience at both sanding, that's putting scratches into the paint and the trickier part, getting them back out.

If you want to do this then invest in some #3000 or #5000 Trizact discs and a 3" Griot's Mini Polisher or some #2500 Nikken Finishing Papers.



frankprozzoly said:
The tiny rock chips in the hood and some other scratches can be touched up just so you don't see white.

When you see white. Is that the clear coat or the primer?
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It's likely dried compound, polish or wax.

If it's none of the above then it's likely primer.



frankprozzoly said:
It's factory
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Two articles for you... this one for the pictures,

Clearcoats are Scratch-Sensitive



Here's an article I wrote back in 2009 that explains quite a bit about the practice of wetsanding....

Wetsanding - Fresh Paint vs Factory Paint



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If the rock chips are in fact filled with compound, would you bother cleaning that out and if so how. Thank you
 
frankprozzoly said:
If the rock chips are in fact filled with compound, would you bother cleaning that out and if so how. Thank you
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Cleaning compound and polish splatter out of rock chips is a real pain.

Some guys blast it with water from a pressure sprayer and cross their fingers they don't blow the actual paint off the car from the high pressure.

Some guys dig it out with a detailing brush or a toothpick.

I don't think there's a fast and easy way.


:)
 
If you have a steamer, they are great at cleaning compound from rock chips.
 
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